Photo of a Hempstead's Pine Woods Snake (Rhadinella hempsteadae)
Photo: Wouter Beukema, CC BY, via iNaturalist

Hempstead's Pine Woods Snake

Rhadinella hempsteadae

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Not documented
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Rhadinella
Continents
North America
Countries
2
How common
Rare

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About

Hempstead's Pine Woods Snake (Rhadinella hempsteadae) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Guatemala, Mexico. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, tropical montane forest and 7 more. Rare: recorded in only 2 places on iNaturalist.

Where it lives

Native range

Habitats

Estimated from where this snake is recorded and what kind of snake it is - not a confirmed habitat survey.

Related snakes

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